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Spiritual and Visionary Communities
Out to Save the World
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had little previous academic or public …
Health and Healing in Minority Religions
Av Sarah Harvey, Eileen Barker
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and …
Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions
Av Eileen Barker, James Richardson
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves.An …
Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East
Mapping and Monitoring
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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Minority religions, not only New Religious Movements, are explored in this innovative book including the predicament of ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism, ‘old new’ religions such as Baha’i, and traditional religions that are minorities elsewhere. The book is divided into two parts: the …
Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions
Av Eileen Barker, James Richardson
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves.An …
'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective
New and Minority Religions
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification …
New Religious Movements and Counselling
Academic, Professional and Personal Perspectives
Av Sarah Harvey, Silke Steidinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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There are many different ways in which minority religions and counselling may interact. In some cases there can be antagonism between counselling services and minority religions, with each suspecting they are ideologically threatened by the other, but it can be argued that the most common …
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
Av Beth Singler, Eileen Barker
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; …
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
Av Beth Singler, Eileen Barker
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; …
Visioning New and Minority Religions
Projecting the future
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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Rather than being ephemeral fads, new religious movements (NRMs) have always been and will always be with us. So will their study. Offering an assessment of the state-of-the-field of the study of NRMs, Visioning New and Minority Religions begins by considering the analytical tools for the study of …
Minority Religions and Uncertainty
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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Religions are at their core about creating certainty. But what happens when groups lose control of their destiny? Whether it leads to violence, or to nonviolent innovations, as found in minority religions following the death of their founders or leaders, uncertainty and insecurity can lead to great …
Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality
From popular culture to religion
Av Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč
Häftad, 2018
876 kr
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The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new religions including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Church of …
Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths
Av James T. Richardson, François Bellanger
Häftad, 2018
820 kr
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New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases …
Minority Religions and Fraud
In Good Faith
Av Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
Häftad, 2018
805 kr
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Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious …
Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora
Imagining the Religious ‘Other’
Av Afe Adogame
Häftad, 2018
820 kr
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The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the …
Spiritual and Visionary Communities
Out to Save the World
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had little previous academic or public …
Prophecy in the New Millennium
When Prophecies Persist
Av Suzanne Newcombe, Sarah Harvey
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. …
Prophecy in the New Millennium
When Prophecies Persist
Av Suzanne Newcombe, Sarah Harvey
Häftad, 2013
849 kr
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Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. …
Global Religious Movements Across Borders
Sacred Service
Av Stephen M. Cherry, Helen Rose Ebaugh
Inbunden, 2014
762 kr
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From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and …
Global Religious Movements Across Borders
Sacred Service
Av Stephen M. Cherry, Helen Rose Ebaugh
Häftad, 2014
820 kr
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From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and …
Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements
Inbunden, 2013
2736 kr
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New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their interpretations frequently become revised, ’adjusted’ …
Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their interpretations frequently become revised, ’adjusted’ …
State Responses to Minority Religions
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world. In some places, religions come as close as imaginable to autonomous existences with little interference from government. In other cases religion finds itself grinding out a meagre living, if …
Minority Religions and Fraud
In Good Faith
Av Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
Inbunden, 2014
2504 kr
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Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious …
State Responses to Minority Religions
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world. In some places, religions come as close as imaginable to autonomous existences with little interference from government. In other cases religion finds itself grinding out a meagre living, if …
Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora
Imagining the Religious ‘Other’
Av Afe Adogame
Inbunden, 2014
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the …
Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths
Av James T. Richardson, François Bellanger
Inbunden, 2014
3168 kr
Lägg i varukorg
New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases …
'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective
New and Minority Religions
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification …
Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality
From popular culture to religion
Av Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč
Inbunden, 2016
2736 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new religions including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Church of …
Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East
Mapping and Monitoring
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Minority religions, not only New Religious Movements, are explored in this innovative book including the predicament of ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism, ‘old new’ religions such as Baha’i, and traditional religions that are minorities elsewhere. The book is divided into two parts: the …
